Macedonia sent a letter of protest to Nato's General Secretary Jan De Hoop Scheffer.

Letter was sent by Macedonian Defense Minister Lazar Elenovski after
an incident at a NATO's traning in France called "Steadfast Junction"
where greek Officer asked Macedonian Officers to remove their badges
where the Flag and the country name is stitched up.

The
Macedonian Officers refused and informed the Central Command in
Macedonia about the incident. After consultations the Macedonian
Officers left France, so the incident doesn't escalate.

"This is
a first incident of its kind, as we have soldiers on many NATO
missions, and no, this hasn't happened before." said Zaharaie
Vulgarakis, spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense.

Because of this incident, Macedonian Defense Ministry did not send Officers to NATO's scheduled training in Stavanger, Norway.

The
greek provocations have quadrupled after the elections were announced
in Macedonia. In part because Prime Minister Gruevski has added 4
points to his Program, where he says that the name would not be
changed, or, if there is a very favorable compromise, Gruevski would
put the name on a Referendum, where it is certain to be defeated, even
if the name is favorable. This way, very intelligently, the Prime
Ministers put the 'name issue' in the hands of Macedonians.

The
reaction from Athens was swift upon hearing of the 4 points. Athens
spokesman Koumutsakis, as well as Bakoyannis issued quick statements
that "there shouldn't be a referendum" as if anyone asked them about their opinion. Their statements were ignored,
and the provocations started.

Athens is stuck in a loosing
battle. Millions of euros were funneled to Macedonian Media, (Utrinski
Vesnik, Dnevnik, even "independent" Agency MakFax) who all had large
editorial piecies how Macedonia should simply 'give up' to Athens' caprice to change our name. Branko
Geroski, Ljubmoric Frckovski.... probably had the worst Anti-Macedonian
pieces ever written, on par with Athens daily Kathimerini,
Elevtherostipos etc. Later, our sources tell us those articles from Utrinski, Dnevnik... were used by Athens at the UN against us, "look what your papers write", even though Athens paid for and ordered those articles. Similar was the situation with statements from 'our' officials, in particularly Gligorov. Athens paid, and paid handsomely for his statements a decade ago.

I wont get into SDSM and how much money Athens has
sent this party. As an illustration, Radmila Sekerinska wears shoes worth 5000
Euros. If you don't care where the money came from, then think of the poor crocodiles
and snakes she wears.

Good thing is, people like Gligorov & Co are out and his remaining associates are on their way out as well.

On
Sunday, Elections. Go out and vote. I wont tell you who to vote for,
hopefully you have a functioning brain to know this little. As for the
Macedonian Officers leaving France and not reacting to the Athens
officer provocation, Good on you! Though, another option could have been to make him eat the Macedonian badge. All I am saying is keep all options open.